Kansas vs. UCLA
Kansas and UCLA have 7 meetings on file, the first in 1953; UCLA leads the series 5–2 in the games on file. Over the last 7 meetings it’s UCLA 5–2. Share
- Kansas wins
- 2
- UCLA wins
- 5
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1953
- Longest streak
- 4 UCLA
- Current streak
- 1 UCLA
- Last 10 meetings
- UCLA 5–2
- Most recent
- 2001
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 0–3 | ||||||||||
| 1970s | 1–1 | ||||||||||
| 1990s | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 2000s | 0–1 |
- Average margin
- 15.6 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Kansas
- 1–2 Kansas’s record at home
- At UCLA
- 3–0 UCLA’s record at home
- Neutral sites
- 1–0 Kansas first
- Shutouts
- 1
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Kansas’s biggest win1995: Kansas 51, UCLA 30by 21 points
- UCLA’s biggest win1954: UCLA 32, Kansas 7by 25 points
- Upset1978: Kansas 28, UCLA 24Kansas had a 30% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
Both programs through the years
Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.
Stars of the series
Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).
From the newspapers

1954 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Sep 28, 1954
Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.
Every game
| Sep 8, 2001 | 14UCLA 41, Kansas 17 | at Kansas | ||
| Dec 25, 1995 | 11Kansas 51, UCLA 30 | Neutral site | Aloha Bowl | |
| Sep 23, 1978 | Kansas 28, 8UCLA 24 | at Kansas | ||
| Sep 17, 1977 | 14UCLA 17, Kansas 7 | at UCLA | ||
| Nov 17, 1956 | UCLA 13, Kansas 0 | at UCLA | ||
| Sep 25, 1954 | 8UCLA 32, Kansas 7 | at Kansas | ||
| Sep 25, 1953 | 4UCLA 19, Kansas 7 | at UCLA |
Every game is listed as played on the field.